I have a hundred acres of mostly woodland in northern Maine, near the Canadian border. Although the animals on my property (bears, moose, deer, fox, fishers, snowshoe hares, squirrels, beaver, etc.) do a pretty good job of feeding themselves without any help from me, I have five wildlife cameras that I set up in different parts of the woods so, to encourage the animals to come closer to the cameras, I've been known to scatter apples, squirrel and bird food, and even a raw chicken or two. Plus, when I am staying near there during the summer and fall, I maintain a compost pile in the woods, in low areas that tend to collect water, and that always attracts the bears.
The only critter that seems to think that I owe him a meal is one particular squirrel. After I brought him food a few times, he began to feel entitled, and would follow me through the woods, going from tree to tree, chattering away at me if I didn't bring him anything.
While I was laying a ceramic floor in my camp, I had left the door open and the squirrel came in, standing near the door, chewing me out for not having brought him anything.
He winters beneath the roots of a large fallen tree, so the past two winters I have dumped a large bag of squirrel food there for him, so I hope he has a nice winter. Last winter, my cameras captured a fox and a fisher trying to dig that squirrel up, but they were both unsuccessful.
